There are no meetings planned in Rome between US foreign ministers Antony Blinken and Chinese colleague Wang Yi within the G7. The State Department’s denial of the press rumors is confirmed on the Chinese side. “We do not know,” said Zhao Lijian Chinese foreign spokesman. The meeting was intended to prepare the ground for the summit meeting of the two superpowers on the occasion of the G20 Summit in October, following a thaw call between Xi and Biden after the results of the G7 and NATO Summit.
The possible political rapprochement
While the dialogue on the trade front between China and the US – with its times and rhythms – has regained momentum, not so for the political one. Not yet, at least.
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Bumpy path, after the outcome of the G7 and NATO Summit. “No meeting is planned between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the next G20 ministerial meeting,” was the State Department’s response to the request for confirmation of a possible meeting between Blinken and his colleague. Chinese in the G20 context.
Chinese foreign spokesman Zhao Lijian also said at the routine press conference in Beijing that he had no information on the matter, indirectly excluding the meeting.
Wang and Blinken never met again after the bitter confrontation in Alaska last March during the Biden administration’s first high-level meeting with counter-protests.